{"product_id":"the-master-and-margarita-paperback","title":"The Master and Margarita - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMikhail Bulgakov\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Pevear\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eLarissa Volokhonsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nothing in the whole of literature compares with \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastical, funny, and devastating satire of Soviet life combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with historical, imaginary, frightful, and wonderful characters. Written during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, and finally published in 1966 and 1967, \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e became a literary phenomenon, signaling artistic and spiritual freedom for Russians everywhere. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This newly revised translation, by the award-winning team of Pevear and Volokhonsky, is made from the complete and unabridged Russian text. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMikhail Bulgakov\u003c\/b\u003e (1891-1940) was a doctor, a novelist, a playwright, a short-story writer, and the assistant director of the Moscow Arts Theater. His body of work includes \u003ci\u003eThe White Guard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Fatal Eggs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeart of a Dog\u003c\/i\u003e, and his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e, published more than twenty-five years after his death and cited as an inspiration for Salman Rushdie's \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Pevear\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand Larissa Volokhonsky\u003c\/b\u003e (translators) have translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, and Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN\/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, for their translations of Dostoyevsky's \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e and Tolstoy's \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in Paris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoris Fishman\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eA Replacement Life\u003c\/i\u003e, which was one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' 100 Notable Books of 2014 and won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal, and \u003ci\u003eDon't Let My Baby Do Rodeo.\u003c\/i\u003e His journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. Fishman has taught at Princeton University and New York University. Born in Minsk, Belarus, he moved to the United States at age nine and now lives in New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Conn Askew\u003c\/b\u003e (cover illustrator) is a painter and tattoo artist whose illustrations have appeared on the covers of books, albums, and magazines. 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